[Fixed] The ‘always online’ problem with Google Chat

In short, this is the problem: You try to go invisible in chat from your gmail and it says: “Oops! You are not invisible because you’re logged into Google Talk from another client, device, or location that doesn’t support invisibility.” No matter what you do – from signing out of all the devices/clients/locations to resetting your google account password, you STILL see the ‘oops’!

Frustrating. To the core!

Turns out that there are a number of reasons why your chat suddenly behaves this way. But the main point is that there is another (or are many other) session(s) of your chat active at that particular time. This spooky session(s) might be from a talk app on your mobile phone, the Hangout app, stand-alone Gtalk software, IM clients such as eBuddy, Trillian, etc. The idea is to end those invisible session(s), but you have no idea where that session is, right?

Don’t worry, there is a way to find that and it takes as much time as it will take you to download around 9Mb.

So, here are the steps:

1. Go ahead download pidgin, a third-party IM client and install it. We will use this client find out and force sign-out those ‘ghosts’ of your Gtalk!

2. Run the program after you install it. You will be asked to ‘Add‘ an account. Click it and select Google Talk from the drop-down menu and enter your gmail credentials. See the pic below:

Sign-in with your gmail credentials

3. A successful sign-in will take you to the client and you will be able to see your contact list (called as Buddy list in pidgin)

4. Click on ‘Buddies‘ and select ‘Get user info‘ or you can just press Ctrl+I. This will give you a pop-up window as shown below. Type your gmail address in it and click OK.

“Enter your Gmail id”

5. Wait for sometime while it fetches the information for you. Once it is done, you should see a window like the one below:

Enter your gmail id

As you can see, this account has currently got 3 active session running (including the one from pidgin). Note the IDs given for the “Resource” entry. Copy the whole content into a notepad/word file. All these IDs indicate a specific device/client in which google talk is active.

6. Now Close this window. Click ‘Manage Accounts‘ and then select your account and delete it.

7. Now, repeat the ‘add account‘ process given in step 2. This time in addition to your gmail user name and password, give the ‘resource id‘ in the ‘Resource‘ section. Sign-in

8. Now, once you are in the main window of the application, set your status as ‘Offline’. Sign into gmail and try to set your status as invisible. If you are not getting the ‘oops…’ message, then you have done it! If you are sill getting it,then follow the above step with the other resource ids that you have seen (which you should have copied into the notepad/word file). Try them one-by-one till you are able to set your status as invisible in gmail chat.

207 Comments:

Brilliant man.. Thanks.. had been scratching my head for a long time on this but now finally its resolved.. Quick and easy.. way better than what Google is offering as solution on their official forums – “wait for sever to recognize that you have logged out”

To be able to authenticate from 3rd party clients, you need to check your Google account Security settings myaccount.google.com/security on the bottom of the page “Allow less secure apps: ON”. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean plain text authentication.

If your connection just times out instead of complaining about password, you might be connecting via proxy. “Use old-style SSL” in Pidgin/Adium in that case.

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Hey, Thanks for this solving this annoying problem. But every time I log out, it’s fine. But one account with resource id Messaging********* always gets logged in. I had to use Pidgin to go offline. Do you know from where this account gets logged in?

Does it show ******* in the resource ID or you just plugged in *s instead of numbers or letter? Generally, – Android device starts with “MessagingA” – iOS device starts with “MessagingB” – Google+ chat: starts with “messaging-TalkGadget” – Old chat in Gmail: starts with “gmail” – New hangouts chat in Gmail: starts with “messaging-smgmail”

Sorry I was not clear, It is MessagingA. I have uninstalled hangouts from my mobile and cleared the data from old talk app and uninstalled it as well. But still the problem persists. I am all out of ideas now… 😦

I tried without logged in there was only one MessagingA id, when I force logged off using pidgin, it didn’t work. Then I logged in the hangouts app and when I checked pidgin it shows two different MessagingA id’s!

Sign out if you are still signed in to android app. Using the new messagingA, sign into pidgin and force Sign out the new messagingA. Now sign in to pidgin with the old messagingA and kill it by signing out from pidgin. Your last sign out request was not confirmed cos you uninstalled the app. That’s why it is showing up. Hopefully this should work.

This is obviously the problem with Hangout app in Android. Probably you should try reinstalling the app, and then do a force-signout as described in the post above (using the resource ID that starts with Messaging A). Hopefully that will solve the problem.

Thank you so much! I got a new tablet and foolishly linked my primary gmail account to it, and was promptly hit by this error message. Despite logging out and removing all trace of the account on the tablet I was still getting the “Oops” message. This was the only thing that worked. Hopefully it won’t come back. Thanks again!

I am having the same issue. I went through the steps, but I can’t seem to sign out the resource that begins as MessagingA—-. I also no longer have access to the Android device, I had wiped it before giving it away

Here is my problem, the account that is overwriting my gChat is IMO.
each time I do this, the resource id changes.
I am monitoring my status with my personal chat account (this is my work account that is ‘stuck’)
and when I put it to ‘busy’ it shows but when i turn the Pigeon to ‘offline’ i bounce right back to available again!
I cant shut it off or have it invisible!

GGRRRRRRRRR
can you make a recommendation or have you seen this situation?

I’m having the same problem with IMO. I deleted IMO from my iphone, and I still have a hanging session somewhere that always shows as available. I have a mac, so I haven’t downloaded pidgin to try the fix, because it directs me to download adium, and I’m not sure if that works the same? help!

for some reason this is not working for me..
i have an gmail.3D84**** resource and a Resource: srv_rdpC15A**** adding either doesn’t solve the problem and disconnects me from the server after seconds. I wish I knew what i was doing wrong.

thanks for the help, I have one question though, do I have to stay logged in with my pidgin forever? cause this worked great for me but 2 minutes after I have closed pidgin I went back to being away, also is there a way to find out where those resources actually are to actually sign out from those devices without a walk around?

Hi bro i have tried this recently but not working for me is there any other solution i am facing same problem. It seems that Google no longer supports gtalk ang Xamp please is there any other solution…i m always online even though i logout from my account suggest me a solution im waiting for ur reply thank you…….

The fix worked for only a few minutes. Does anyone know what Resource: MessagingAedc0a405 represents? I cannot track down what application or service is accessing gtalk. I have my android phone, desktop and ipad powered OFF and the behaivor repeated.

I am forced visible again every time I send an email (with gmail). I only have an account on a desktop computer – I do not even have a phone or tablet, etc. It is driving me so mad I am thinking of dumping gmail altogether after 8 years.

I was in a similar state of mind a month ago. But then i read somewhere these ghosts sessions get logged out on their own after 30 days. I somehow managed to calm myself down and didn’t delete my Gmail account and after 30 days finally the status showed “you are invisible”. So just forget about it for 30 days.. 🙂

You need to instal Hangouts again on your phone. Before uninstalling it, u need to log out.Then you can uninstall Hangouts from your phone. After this step, inviisible mode can be enabled at your gmail account from your computer.

This soluton at this site is just temporary as you log on hangout account of your phone (step 7) and then logout Hangount session. When you uninstal pigin the problem still exists.

Install HANGOUTS again on your phone then before uninstaling it, LOG OUT.

Hello, thank you very much for your article I can now keep track of those stupid ghost sessions.
Unfortunately there is this one session I keep trying to kill that geenrate different IDs “MessagingAe19a09e8”, “MessagingAa2fe1604”,…. using Pidgin.

I connect to it using Pidgin, I made sure it’s the last one active.
I then go offline (I have a other gmail account so I can check the status on my main account)
I notice that when I go offline on the session using Pidgin it does go offline for real this time.

BUT after around 3 minutes (I timed it), I reappear online with a away status (even though the Pidgin session is still offline).

I did a test and connected on my phone using hangout it the generated a new ID “MessagingAa2fe1604” and the old one “MessagingAe19a09e8” the old one is now gone and do not show up anymore but the new one does.

So my conclusion was that my phone hangout app, was reconnecting me after 3 minutes even if i went offline using Pidgin.
But I turned off my phone after going offline and it still came back online with away status.

It’s like the hangout servers just want to keep my status alive in away mode 24/7 even if i’m not connected on any device.

I can’t even uninstall hangout on my phone I have a Sg4 with android 4.2.2 and apparently the hangout app can’t be uninstall on it and revert back to talk app on the android version, believe me I tried even killing the service and turning off the device :'(.

Any idea how I can definitely kill that ghost hangout session FOR GOOD that keep coming back after 3 minutes ?

To Dany,
Hey ! I know what you are talking to and I kinda relate very same to your problem as well. Now the solution : You say the Hangout Application on your Android Device. Now you can do two things, and you want to uninstall it. but can’t So a) Either Go to Settings, Applications, Manage Applications and go to Hang Out App and Click on it, You will find a button that says “Uninstall Updates” You can do that to revert back to the orignal Google Talk app on the android device. Remember That will only work when you updated the Original Google Talk App to Hangouts Or else, if It came with the system, Preinstalled, Well Then try Root Uninstaller and You can Uninstall That Fucking Son of a Bitch App. (Yeah I do as well hate That Hangout App that keeps me logged in 24*7 ) (google i better hope you reading this) And Dum Dul da, there You go. Hocus Pocus, Try doing the above procedure once again, Sign In Using Resoruce Ids, and you will attain whatcha looking for. Till Then , Have a good day mate !

Thank you for your message I feel better not being alone in this struggle.
I did what you said and finally managed to uninstall completely hangout on my SG4 I have root access. Unfortunately It is not enough.. I still have the ghost session that comes back online in a away status :'(. I have my other account to verify.
– Hangout is completely uninstall (I even disabled google+)
– Pidgin connected on session ID : MessagingAe19a09e8.
I checked it’s the last session alive with get user info
> I go offline using pidgin
– I have my other gmail account to check the status of my main account (which that other account was never attached to hangout fortunately)
> I see my main account go offline from the pidgin offline action.
– Then 3 minutes later I come back online even tough I’m still offline on pidgin.

So I then go back online on the pidgin using a clean session and now I discover that an new session ID was generated : MessagingAfb0b31d1

I actually did a test I used pidgin on my other gmail account while the main account was offline (during the 3 minutes). This way I could actually monitor when the ghost session come back and It did. I was completely offline not connected anywhere. And then 3 minutes after I see my main account come online on my 2nd google account. I check the ID it’s “MessagingAfb0b31d1”.
Right now I don’t even have hangout or gtalk installed on my phone.
EVEN worst I actually went in gmail account settings and checked the “Chat off” option.
I don’t even have a browser open on my main gmail account.
BUT I HAVE this F****** session “MessagingAfb0b31d1” that is online from god knows where and came back even after being forced offline.

I connected on gtalk in gmail browser, I used pilgrin to monitor the alive session. I clearly see the ghost session “MessagingAfb0b31d1” in a away status mode and my browser gtalk session online : Resource: gmail.9CC8C3E6.

That fucking ghost session won’t go away :'(.
GOOGLE PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME, IF YOU ARE out there destroy that fucking ghost session : “MessagingAfb0b31d1” that keep on coming back to life on your stupid servers FFS !!!!!

Hangout could actually be good, the video chat system I tested was actually good. If they let us manage and have control on our status,et display a normal online/away/busy contact list and not force us to be online 24/7 and go invisible when we want.
I’ll never understand what happened in their development department over there.

So here I am with a 24/7 ghost session i keep on trying to kill using pdigin but it comes back even after uninstalling hangout for good :'(.

Pissed of this New Gtalk(Hangout).. was unable to go invisible and Unable to know wheather my friends who are online or away or busy.. Which is irrirtating me alot.. Wotever but “OLD IS GOLD”…
Tried many things online but fail and finally left beating up my head and now after 1 month checked up and my problem is solved automatically…. I am now able to go invisible… But one thing if I am logged in my hangout of mobile and on my laptop then when i m trying to go invisible on laptop I can’t unless I get logged out of my hangout in mobile…. as I heard that Hangout doesnt support invisible mode right now… so if you wish to go invisible then don’t forget to log off from ur mobile hangout…
I will be alert next time whenever I sell my mobile will always log out first in mobile and uninstall hangout from my mobile b4 selling it off….

Basically the only solution so far is to wait 30 days and make sure to not sign in again in the hangout app, to not create more ghost sessions…
All this in the hope for those ghosts sessions to expire on there own, this is ridiculous…

I have tried this several times and it still does not work. I entered the Resource ID for one session and changed my status to “offline.” I signed into gmail, and I could not go invisible. So I deleted the account on Pidgin, and added a new account with the second Resource ID that was shown. When the account loads, my status is already set to “offline.” I try signing into gmail, and I still cannot go invisible. Those two sessions were the only ones that show up (aside from the Pidgin session). Any suggestions?

i’ve tried the way but still can’t able to log out for all…i still seee the oops and im still on away mode. Then i keep trying to log out with the resource id..however, everytime i check also different resource id…is it something strange going on? pls help.

This worked for me. But, when I re-connected my Gmail account on my Galaxy S Vibrant phone Firmware version 2.2, the problem came back. I went to Google Accounts -> Account Permissions and deleted the newly created Android Login application. Then, I went back to Pigin and followed the same steps again. So far, it is working okay.

Thanks for this post. It was very helpful. After a lot of research got the
solution.
Does this mean once i have got my gmail account registered on hangout there is no way i can unregister? My problem is i do not want to give an impression that i am available but even though i have signed out from hangout on my mobile device–when i login to gmail from my laptop it still says i have logged in from other device. Also how can i remove hangout from my gmail ?
The solution provided by you abt invisible mode in gmail works but if i log out from Pidgin will i still be invisible ?
I have always been using Nokia…and this is the first time on android (nexus 5) and find it very irritating to use .

Well, i was searching the solution all over the web but nothing worked ,and today i got bumped in to your blog and with cross fingers i tried your way……but couldn’t fix the problem. as instructed, i got a Session list and used Resource id one by one but In my case Pidgin says “Invalid XMPP ID”. so being a Noob , i need your help. I’m Using my Google A/cs on Cell and Laptop…and even after Sign out..it shows ‘idle’ status to every one. So Mr. Karthik..Plz help me.

Thanks a lot for your advice! I was going crazy with this ghost session thing and not finding where it was.
By the way, I could replicate the same procedure on Adium (as I’m using a mac, and the installation of Pidgin was a bit tricky). It seems to work the same way.

Hi I have been having the same problem. And so far I could replicate the process. I am using Adium for mac. But I am not able to login using the “resource id” in Adium like he mentioned for Pidgin. Can you please let me know how you are able to do that. Thank you.

100000000000 thanks !! it worked 🙂 i was suffering for the past 1yr ….man you made my day.

How to configure the account

You’ll want to load the “Modify Account” screen (assuming the account is already created). That can be accessed by going to the Accounts menu, selecting the account in question, and choosing “Edit Account” from the list of options.

Once the screen is loaded, click on the Advanced tab. You’ll be presented with a number of different configuration options. The following list contains the settings I updated, along with what I set their values to. Any omitted settings can be left as-is.

That was awesome….I wanted to literally bang my head against a wall for this message from GTalk….Well I did get invisible on GTalk through this method but as soon as I signed in GTalk (not hangouts) on my phone, the gmail chat started showing me the same message that I cannot stay in invisible mood because I’m signed in from another source or device. Inspite of changing status as invisible on android, the message din’t go away. What I did is I installed hangout on phone and then signed in through it. I was still able to show up as invisible on Gmail chat.

Thank you so much!!!! It worked !!
Now perhaps you could recommend android app that would work good on Android 4.3 and be somewhat similar to what gtalk was before hangouts takeover.
I used to use ebuddy but that doesnt seem to work on Android 4.3.
I do want the app that supports invisible status.
Thank you!!!!!

I am getting one ghost session MessagingA……..,even after going offline with pidgin using this resource id the problem is not fixed,it is fixed only for about 3 minutes after going offline from pidgin,Any suggestions?

PIDGIN SEEMED LIKE IT WORKED OUT FOR A SEC BUT MY HAPPINESS IS SHORT LIVED AS THE OOPS THING REAPPEARED IN A JIFF…
WELL I DID RE INSTALL HANGOUTS ON MY ANDROID THIS TIME; DID SIGNOUT IN THE SETTINGS AND UNINSTALLED IT… TO MY SURPRISE THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE SOLVED AS I COULD GOTO INVISIBLE MODE WITHOUT ANY PROB IN MY GMAIL NOW.. YAYYY.. HOPE IT DOESNT RE-SURFACE AGAIN…..

Nice article.. but tool didn’t help for me. My Gmail account is protected with Mobile PIN.Means i will get a 4 digit pin on my mobile when ever i try to login to my Gmail account.May be becoz of this reason when i try to add my account in Pidgin , it is saying ur account is not authorized 😦 . Any other option for me to resolve this OOPS error

Yes, that was just a client to log your account on and off. You can uninstall it afterwards.
But as you read here, the ghost sessions reappear after few minutes. It seems not to be a client problem, but a Jabber compatible representation of your presence. Google simply thinks Away is a new Offline…

brilliant solution! thank you so much – i’d spent a good hour looking into the issue (this time, anyway – i’ve looked into it several times in the past) before giving your solution a go. just 10 minutes later, my eyesore has disappeared.

Thank you sooooooooooooooooo very much! I factory reset my android phone and it restored again from previous backups I guess and since then I was stuck with this “oops…” issue. Your article helped and made my day!!!

Thanks for the tip, but it is soooo annoying that this is so complicated!! I am at work on a work computer and I don’t have the admin privilege of downloading software, and I really shouldn’t have to download third-party software for google to work properly. Hasn’t google made me download enough stuff that it should just work?!

Few minutes after posting the above message, the problem came back. After few seconds of pondering, I decided to tinker with the Hangout SMS app on my new Nexus 5 phone, and it worked. The solution is simple. FIRST, AND I CAN’T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. Now, launch the Hangout SMS app, go to settings, tap on your account (username@gmail.com), scroll to the bottom, and hit the sign out button. When you set-up your Android phone using your gmail account, you’re automatically logged into all Google services and products on your phone (including the Hangout SMS app, which I only discovered today). I found that although my phone was offline as usual (i.e. not connected to the internet), my Hangout SMS app didn’t show up as one of the Resource entry on the Pidgin software, which is NOT strange, but, for whatever reason, Google’s server still “thinks” I’ve online (now that’s strange). Again, the solution is connect your phone to the internet and log out of the Hangout SMS app. All that been said, you still deserve plenty of hugs and kisses. 🙂

I fixed it on my end by logging out of all my accounts from Gmail Details Signout other Users then went and logged in and changed my Google password then logged out waited about a half hour 45 minutes then logged back into Gmail and it was fixed I am Invisible in Gmail chat

To all of you who are having the problem remain, despite the excellent instructions on this blog (which WILL work perfectly, by the way):

Originally, my issue was caused by Google+ and/or HangOuts and/or google groups, and that was before this solution existed. Ultimately, what I had to do was log off of all sessions and disable Google+:

1) I had to Install google talk on my phone (before it was replaced by HangOuts), sign in, and sign out (this is assuming that you don’t get new phones every couple of months, or wipe and reinstall a ROM–this is what causes my current issue, and this pidgin solution works perfectly).

2) I logged onto Google+ on my computer and signed off of that HangOuts instance, but NOT off of my google login.

3) I went to my gmail inbox, still on my computer, and scrolled to the bottom of the inbox area, and clicked on the “Last activity” “Details” link, and signed out all other sessions.

4) I revoked all android app access in Google settings.

5) I disabled Google+ by deleting it from my Google account.

My problem was resolved after step 5, and if I enabled Google+ again upon ROM installation, or for some other reason to do G+ related things, the problem returned and I forgot that was why, until I went through the process, and then disabled Google+ permanently…again.

Since then, it’s only been caused when HangOuts gets installed with Cyanogenmod and/or the gapps package. It’s a pain to remember to sign out BEFORE uninstalling/freezing the app, because it leaves a stale connection, and if I don’t resolve it before flashing a new ROM, I’ll fire up an additional, stale connection. I can’t say how long it took, with certainty, but I was able to resolve it by turning my phone off and using a different phone with a different gmail account for many days, and change my password before turning the original phone back on. That was about two years ago, and it takes MUCH longer for sessions to time out, unfortunately…well over a week. The instructions on this blog signed out my three stale sessions, successfully, and with ease.

If you still have problems, try my steps and see if Google+ / HangOuts is the remaining culprit. It gets disabled on your computer, because it’s easier, but it translates over to the google+ app and hangouts on your phone. After which, you can use this pidgin solution, if need be.

I forgot to add something. For this page’s solution to work for me, I also had to turn off my phone’s data connection (I just used airplane mode), change my password, then sign into pidgin under those three resources and sign them off. Then, turn my phone’s data back on and enter the updated password, and things were all clear. If I didn’t do that, two of the three connections would return within about 10 minutes.

Well, it worked for a little while. This time I did a few new things…so there are even more steps you can try if this blog’s excellent instructions don’t work for you. Be sure you follow his instructions carefully, because it /should/ work.

1) I removed my android devices (I only had two listed, though I don’t remember removing my old ones in the past).
2) I reset my password.
3) Tried using a google app on my phone, until it popped up complaining about the authentication. Left it as dysfunctional, with the old password, to be corrected later.
4) I used the blog’s pidgin approach, except I also sent a message to someone, to pseudo-establish that the connection “resource” was active on this connection, then I signed off.
5) Repeated for lingering connections.
6) Deleted all app data for Google Maps on my phone.
7) Updated password on my phone, and performed the 2-step authentication.

That worked again, and it’s been about 10 hours, so it’s the longest stretch yet.

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###Notes on steps 1 and 6
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I think the google maps and/or the old android devices in the security settings contributed to, or directly caused this. There was only one other device listed (I don’t recall deleting them from here lately), yet that device is my old GS4 which I haven’t used in 2 months, and maybe it somehow was causing the issue…”deleted!” – StrongBad

As for step 6, I’ve been using Maps 6.1.4 for well over a year because the 7.x and 8.x series just plain suck as far as the navigation UI is concerned. Anyway, I’ve been restoring the app & data via Titanium Backup, and it may have finally been causing this problem. It never did this when I’d restore before, but I recall in recent weeks when I would restore, it would pop up complaining about “location settings from a previous…” and I don’t remember if it said “previous phone” or “previous app”, but I was restoring data so I’d have my recent driving locations listed. This may have been it, since Latitude is defunct, and I never knew that until now, and for a few weeks, I’ve been trying to go into settings to ensure it’s off, but it kept crashing…I assumed it was incompatibility of the old Maps app version and KitKat, but I may have established ghost/useless connections somehow.

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out my I was getting that “You are not invisible because..” message in Gmail (this only happened after installing some android ROMs on my phone, not sure which one did it exactly). I tried everything, signing out of Hangouts everywhere, using Google’s sign out of all other sessions, nothing fixed it. I found this post and it’s the only thing that actually fixed it so that I could change the status back to invisible! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it for all too see.

I’m just curious, does anyone know exactly why this is happening? It looks like some zombie session of google talk stays on? Is that by design on Google’s part or is it some bug?

Spoke too soon, the problem is still there. I tried what Jon8RFC wrote above but it still happens.

One thing I notice is the message is only present if you use the old chat view when viewing gmail in a desktop web browser, if I switch to the hangouts view in gmail, the message isn’t there. There’s no option at all for invisible in Hangouts.

What fixed it for me was to do everything that was mentioned at the beginning of the post at the top then Make sure you are on the gmail chat view and logout of chat. Then log out of all accounts via gmail details>sign out all other sessions. On your phone make sure you uninstall any updates to Hangouts and are running the stock version and login to it and log out. Wait about 10 minutes. Login to your google account and reset your password. Then log out Wait another 10 minutes. Log back into Gmail Log back into chat then switch to Invisible it should work now

Thanks but it still doesn’t work for me. I tried everything suggested. The exact same resource ID always come back, it always has the exact same resource ID: Resource: Messaging…, Priority: 0, Status: Away. Initially when setting that resource in pidgin to Offline, Gmail chat status changes from the “You are not invisible because..” message to invisible or available or whatever I set the status to. However that seems wears off as a few minutes later it goes back to the previous message. Same resource ID if I check again in pidgin. I deleted all app passwords for my Android phone and tablet, only app in the list was pidgin.

BTW if I add my phone back to security list and sign into HangOuts, a different Messaging resource ID shows up in pidgin but the zombie one is still there. I sign out from HangOuts on my phone and it is no longer in the list as expect, but the zombie one remains.

hey
my is not working. i had 3 accounts onliine. i followed the process mentioned above, so first i logged into the resource 1 account, and then when i logged out of it and logged into the resource 2 account, it showed that it was offline but actually then when i again opened my account with no resource, it showed that both the accounts with resource 1 and 2 were online and not offline.
please help

I didn’t say that any of them were being stupid. More to say/show look what bad stuff can happen when you’re holding a heavy bar over your face and important stuff. So take it seriously Although, Phil does point out the “false” grip being used and clearly some of them were putting their egos ahead of the heads. Let’s not do that here that all

When I originally left a comment I appear to have clicked the -Notify me when new
comments are added- checkbox and now every time a comment is added I get 4 emails with the exact
same comment. Is there a way you can remove me from that
service? Many thanks!

I swear there is something wrong. Like others say, I have the “MessagingA” issue, but I don’t own any android products…all the devices in my house were definitely signed out, I triple-checked. The force log out didn’t work at all, though I tried several times. Anyone have any suggestions?!?! I’m on the verge of tearing my hair out.

This works when I am using my pc and have pidgin open. However, as soon as pidgin closes, it stops working and puts me right back “online” again. I don’t have a problem keeping the application open, but when I close or shut down my computer, pidgin isn’t going to continue working, so this doesn’t entirely solve my problem?
I don’t have anything on my phone. I logged into gchat once on my phone, realized I didn’t want that, and factory reset the thing so I would no longer be logged in. Ever since I first logged in on my phone I’ve had this problem, even though I don’t even have the gchat or hangouts app on my phone anymore??

hi,
I tried using the method, but whenever I add the account, instead of google talk , the account is added using xmpp protocol and as a result I am unable to see the buddy list being updated.
Please advise.
Thanks

Dear Karthik,
I tried many times through your process. But I’m going to invisible for sometime only (Ex: 3min),
after that period It automatically coming back to idle state. Then I logged into pigdin, in ‘get user info’ again it showing same resource id’s containing Active ‘0’ and status ‘Away’. Please help me karthik.

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Hello, I had installed Pidgin and in Add Account put Google Talk protocol but after confirming of all actions I got XMPP protocol automatically and I can’t change it to Google Talk. Why do I can’t change it ?

Pidgin will not let me add accounts as this article recommends. When I put in the info including resource ID the program says I already have an account with that info. When I try to modify the account and add the resource ID that section is greyed out.

This works. But why is it that whenever I use my my Android, I lose my invisibility, even if my account has “Not Signed In” as the status in the Hangouts app? Do I always (every time I use my Android) do this Pidgin trick?

When I freeze the Hangouts app (and the Hangouts Dialer app) then I can keep my invisibility. But I’d rather not freeze Hangouts, because I use it to make free USA/Canada calls.

It might have nothing in common with the Hangout client. There might be some sort of caching/timeout problem on the server side.

I had the same problem with the ghost session reappearing after few minutes like many others here, though I repeated mentioned procedure few times.

What succeeded was:
I logged in from android Hangouts app and repeated this procedure while still being logged in! Then I tried to use Pidgin normally with my usual Resource (note: OTR keys didn’t get lost or regenerated, just don’t establish OTR sessions with temporary Resource). When I checked (ctrl-i) my resources, I didn’t see the Hangout resource despite still being able to chat with other people through it. I logged out the Hangouts.

Everything still works fine for one day already. Me and my contacts just see me online once (from one resource). What is weird, there is no resource visible even when I’m online from Hangout app or Hangout in Gmail. And also the android Hangout login takes like 1 minute, phone restart having no impact… But it doesn’t matter I don’t use it anyway. Xabber’s resource, for example, is visible, when I’m using it from phone.

Just letting you know. I expect this to change in the future. Hangouts is a living organism. 😦

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